[please CC the submitter as well as the bug number, or else they don't
get a reply!]
Oops, sorry. For now, it's To: you plus cc to BTS. Should I cc debian-boot
as well?
Do you have any examples of packages which use /etc/mtab in this way?
No. But...
I checked KDE 3.5.5 and it seems to be
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 02:19:33PM +0200, Radim X. wrote:
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Are you sure that this won't break things elsewhere?
Yes; the whole point of this change is to stop breaking things that are
currently broken,
Are you sure that this won't break things elsewhere? Other packages
might use /etc/mtab with inotify to watch mount events (especially for
removable media). They would have to switch to a different method,
since /proc does not support inotify and udev doesn't help either.
Radim
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Package: debian-installer
Severity: important
/etc/mtab can be either a regular file updated by mount/umount, or a symlink
to /proc/mounts. Currently, it is a regular file, though the user can change
this by hand.
With linux 2.6.26, /proc/mounts lacks information present in /etc/mtab such
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